Sentences with phrase «of other psychiatric disorders»

Some teenagers with conduct disorder may also have symptoms of other psychiatric disorders (see ADHD, depression, alcohol and drug abuse).

Improve skills in assessing ADD syndrome and in differentiating ADD symptoms from those of other psychiatric disorders.

The presence of other psychiatric disorders and their severity were assessed with use of the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (lifetime version), 18 modified to detect personality disorders.

Using genome - wide genomic data, the researchers found that, among European American females, 29 % of the risk for developing PTSD is influenced by genetic factors, which is comparable to that of other psychiatric disorders.

Moreover, «more people die of an eating disorder than of any other psychiatric disorder,» Shah added.

Not exact matches

Unlike tests for emotional instability, personality disorder, or other psychiatric disorders that some armchair diagnosticians have speculated Trump may have, assessments of cognitive status are relatively objective and quantitative.

Every year more and more students approach me at the end of the semester to confess that they have one or an - other psychiatric problem that is beyond their control, and to insist that because they are clinically depressed, bipolar or have attention deficit disorder they must be given extra weeks to hand in their work.

There is a significant variation in the way individuals react and respond to extreme stress and adversity — some individuals develop psychiatric conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder or major depressive disorder — others recover from stressful experiences without displaying significant symptoms of psychological ill - health, demonstrating stress - resilience.

If a brother or sister suffers from bipolar disorder, then their siblings have x4 greater chance of suffering from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders.

Now a large survey using data from all patients hospitalized in psychiatric wards in Israel, and their siblings, has given some answers: having a sibling with schizophrenia increases your risk of developing the condition by a factor of x10, with increased risks of developing bipolar disorder and other mental disorders.

Indeed, psychiatric and neurological disorders are at least as genetically determined, and in many cases more so, than common diseases of other organ systems.

Others seem capable of relieving the symptoms of profound psychiatric disorders.

The researchers found that female mice given LPA - containing serum or LPA alone displayed hyperactivity upon stimulation, showed anxiety and had increased numbers of dopamine - producing neurons — all which are characteristic of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.

Others are involved in conditions that tend to occur alongside ASD, such as psychiatric disorders and epilepsy, and interestingly, some of the genes are also involved in cancer.

People being treated for bipolar disorder and other psychiatric illnesses are at greater risk of attempting suicide, but physicians may now have tools to predict which of those individuals will attempt it and intervene early to prevent such tragedies from occurring.

«Our work clearly shows that pathological gambling runs in families at a rate higher than for many other behavioral and psychiatric disorders,» says Donald W. Black, MD, professor of psychiatry in the UI Carver College of Medicine.

In a new study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, neuroscientists from the University of Chicago show that white matter in a region of the brain called the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) has less integrity and density in people with IED than in healthy individuals and those with other psychiatric disorders.

«Other research shows that psychiatric disorders earlier in childhood are strong predictors of marijuana use later on,» Grucza said.

However, Dr Jensen noted that other results from long - term cohort studies are sparse and inconsistent, but in general do not show strong associations between infertility, fertility treatment and risk of psychiatric disorders.

Statistically significant hazard ratios for specific groups of psychiatric disorders were found for schizophrenia and psychoses (1.27, 1.16 - 1.38), affective disorders (1.32, 1.25 - 1.39), anxiety and other neurotic disorders (1.37, 1.32 - 1.42), mental and behavioural syndromes including eating disorders (1.13, 1.04 - 1.24), mental retardation (1.28, 1.17 - 1.40), mental development disorders including autism spectrum disorders (1.22, 1.16 - 1.28), and behavioural and emotional disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)(1.40, 1.34 - 1.46), when compared with rates in naturally conceived children.

The new finding is the latest evidence supporting a growing precision medicine model of psychiatric disease in which disruptions of certain genes during brain development contribute to a person's risk for multiple psychiatric disorders, with other genetic or epigenetic drivers, random developmental events, or environmental influences determining the specific disease an individual develops, said senior author Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF.

Among the study's high - risk children who did develop bipolar disorder, nearly all had identifiable mood episodes and other psychiatric disorders before the onset of full - fledged bipolar illness.

«OCD research has lagged behind other psychiatric disorders in terms of genetics,» Nestadt says.

Roy Meadow at St James's University Hospital in Leeds says it is now mainly seen in children of parents with Münchhausen's syndrome by proxy, a psychiatric disorder in which people deliberately make others sick.

In the new study, the researchers discovered that during the second trimester of human brain development, oRG cells express genes related to a fundamental signaling pathway called mTOR, defects in which have previously been implicated in autism and several other psychiatric disorders.

On the other hand, Carpenter says, drug development for psychiatric disorders «has been stalemated for decades» due to our lack of understanding of the biological roots of psychiatric disease.

Disturbances in the functioning of this network, as well as various kind of infection and other triggers of a pregnant woman's immune response, have been linked to development of psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders.

«This study illustrates the potential of gaining fundamental insights into brain function while helping patients with debilitating diseases, and provides us with a powerful way of selecting targets based on their connectivity to other regions that can be widely applied to help guide brain stimulation therapy across multiple neurological and psychiatric disorders.»

Others have previously speculated that the biological basis of psychiatric disorders such as PTSD includes a shift in the balance between different signalling systems in the brain but none has yet proved it.

Abnormally high concentrations of dopamine are linked to schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.

The report makes clear that psychiatric problems «have been ruled out» as a cause of Gulf War Illness, noting that Gulf War veterans have lower rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychiatric disorders than their counterparts who served in other wars.

«Speech analysis software predicted psychosis in at - risk patients with up to 83 percent accuracy: Big - data approach has potential to improve prediction of psychiatric and other medical disorders.»

«Although our current results are only proof of concept, we are on the way to achieving our goal of developing a local drug delivery mechanism that will be able to treat oncologic, psychiatric, neurological and neurodegenerative disorders, amongst others,» Carret concluded.

Pathological guilt can be a symptom of clinical depression, as well as other psychiatric disorders including anxiety, obsessive - compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder.

These findings could have implications for understanding the genetic basis of methamphetamine addiction in humans and the development of novel therapeutics for prevention and treatment of substance abuse and possibly other psychiatric disorders.

Other research has shown that long - term use of cannabis increases adolescent drug users» risk for certain psychiatric and neurological disorders, such as schizophrenia.

It should radically transform our knowledge of immune function and dysfunction in infectious diseases, autoimmune or inflammatory disorders, and the role of immunocytes in other diseases as diverse as cancer, type 2 diabetes, and psychiatric disease.

«Dr. Tsuang's ultimate goal is to help prevent psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and other mental illnesses before their onset, and to identify traits that might predispose a person to developing this type of devastating illness, either because of genetic or environmental causes,» said Lewis L. Judd, M.D., Mary Gilman Marston Professor and Chair of UCSD's Department of Psychiatry.

She was among the first to ask whether women are affected differently than men by substance use and other psychiatric disorders, and to ask whether gender could play a role in the effectiveness of treatment.

Such changes in neuronal function are likely to play important roles in all normal physiological processes in the brain and are critical for development of a variety of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy, drug dependence and other neurological and psychiatric disorders.

This new research study out of Yale University suggests some important implications for those dealing with schizophrenia, epilepsy, or other psychiatric disorders.

In 2009 Dr. Drevets became the first President and Scientific Director of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in Tulsa, OK, a private research institute founded and supported by The William K. Warren Foundation, to lead a multidisciplinary team in studies aimed at investigating interrelationships between neuroimaging, genetic and other biomarkers, illness course, and treatment outcome in psychiatric disorders.

This case highlights the fact that frontotemporal lobar degeneration / progressive supranuclear palsy (FTLD / PSP) and other «tauopathies» represent a complex group of neurodegenerative disorders that may masquerade for many years as refractory psychiatric disorders.

«Because of the genetic complexity of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders, we need a large sample size to conduct this type of research.

Major Neurocognitive Disorder is diagnosed when disturbance of a single cognitive ability is severe enough to interfere with independence, and the disturbance is not caused by drug use, delirium, or various other medical or psychiatric conditions.

The same brain structures implicated in the urge to take drugs are involved in other biological urges, Paulus added, suggesting that a homeostatic approach could have a broad impact on treatments that seek to control addictions or psychiatric disorders, and will lay the groundwork for new areas of research.

The research supports the connection between substance abuse and ADHD discovered in earlier research and demonstrates that coexisting factors like family history of substance abuse or other psychiatric disorders can not be responsible for the increased risk.

In addition, a relationship has been hypothesized between iodine deficiency and a number of other health issues including other malignancies, obesity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), psychiatric disorders, and fibromyalgia.

A relationship has also been suggested between iodine deficiency and a number of other health issues including other cancers, obesity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), psychiatric disorders, and fibromyalgia.

Inflammation in the brain may contribute to symptoms of depression and other psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, anxiety, aggression and anorexia.